Adalberto Toledo

Jun 8, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Adalberto Toledo

Dolores Huerta sat down on a couch Saturday inside the offices of the Mission Language and Vocational School as caterers hastily prepared dozens of dishes nearby and a man hauled a loudspeaker past the door. The Stockton-born Huerta, an icon of the 1960s and ’70s farmworker movement, was celebrating her 94th birthday in San Francisco along with about a hundred invitees — only it’s two months after her actual birthday.

Jun 8, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Adalberto Toledo

Tina Collins scooped handfuls of tortilla chips onto a paper plate and spooned chili on top Saturday as the wind howled down San Francisco’s Market Street. The Code Tenderloin project manager said feeding people for free was the most appropriate way to celebrate Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when slaves in the deep south of Texas learned of their emancipation more than two years earlier  — even if it was her birthday.

Jun 4, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Adalberto Toledo

San Francisco Mayor London Breed pledged Tuesday to direct more city resources to the struggling downtown districts of Union Square and Yerba Buena, announcing plans to reduce parking fees, boost entertainment zones, redesign streets and increase security.

Jun 2, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Adalberto Toledo |Danielle Echeverria

Stepping out onto Powell and Market today finds a different scene. Two of the three massive storefronts in the historic Flood Building — owned by Flood’s family for two generations — sit empty. The building is one of the first sights visitors or residents encounter when exiting the BART station or waiting for the cable cars.

May 24, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Adalberto Toledo

Wealthy Levi’s heir Daniel Lurie announced Friday he will fund his own mayoral campaign and decline public financing. The announcement comes amid what is expected to be one of  most expensive mayoral races in San Francisco history, a crowded race in which candidates have together already raised millions of dollars ahead of the November election.